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Informed Investors Make Stronger Decisions

At AMG Funds, we believe that informed investors make stronger decisions. Knowing more leads to a deeper understanding of how you can reach your financial goals.

We have designed our Investment Essentials program to provide you with the basics of investing. Equipped with this knowledge, you can have better conversations with your financial advisor and, potentially, find better solutions to your investment needs.

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We organized many topics into broad categories that capture the essential concepts of investing. These categories include:

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Managing Your Portfolio

Cryptocurrencies: The Latest Fad or The Next Frontier?

Cryptocurrencies have generated a tsunami of public excitement—and minted a new group of multimillionaires—seemingly overnight. This article explains these complex investments, discusses blockchain, and reviews the risks associated with these new investment options.

Managing Your Portfolio

The Personal Financial Advisor vs. Robo Alternatives

Investors today can choose between human advisors and low-cost, automated alternatives. These newer “robo” options use technology to develop a portfolio based on a questionnaire the client completes online. While robo offerings are getting increasingly sophisticated, research shows that human advisors remain in high demand. Deciding which offering is right for you depends on a number of factors, including your stage of life and the complexity of your financial circumstances.

Practical Math for Investing

Quantifying Investment Risk

Investing in financial markets can carry significant risks and long-term adverse effects. Modern portfolio theory (MPT), which includes the concepts of asset allocation, diversification and rebalancing, assesses the maximum expected portfolio return for a given amount of portfolio risk.

Managing Your Portfolio

Cryptocurrencies: The Latest Fad or The Next Frontier?

Cryptocurrencies have generated a tsunami of public excitement—and minted a new group of multimillionaires—seemingly overnight. This article explains these complex investments, discusses blockchain, and reviews the risks associated with these new investment options.

Managing Your Portfolio

The Personal Financial Advisor vs. Robo Alternatives

Investors today can choose between human advisors and low-cost, automated alternatives. These newer “robo” options use technology to develop a portfolio based on a questionnaire the client completes online. While robo offerings are getting increasingly sophisticated, research shows that human advisors remain in high demand. Deciding which offering is right for you depends on a number of factors, including your stage of life and the complexity of your financial circumstances.

Practical Math for Investing

Quantifying Investment Risk

Investing in financial markets can carry significant risks and long-term adverse effects. Modern portfolio theory (MPT), which includes the concepts of asset allocation, diversification and rebalancing, assesses the maximum expected portfolio return for a given amount of portfolio risk.

The Psychology of Investing

According to conventional financial theory, the world and its participants are, for the most part, rational “wealth maximizers.” However, there are many instances where emotion and psychology influence our decisions, causing us to behave in unpredictable or irrational ways. Behavioral finance seeks to combine behavioral and cognitive psychological theory with conventional economics and finance to provide explanations for why people make irrational financial decisions.

Confirmation and Hindsight Biases

Seeing is not necessarily believing as we also have confirmation and hindsight biases. Confirmation bias refers to how people tend to be more attentive to new information that confirms their own preconceived opinions about a subject. The hindsight bias represents how people believe after the fact, the occurrence of an event was completely obvious.

Overreaction and the Availability Bias

Prospect Theory

Prospect theory refers to an idea created by Drs. Kahneman and Tversky, which essentially determined that people do not associate equal levels of joy and pain with the same effect. The average individuals tend to be more loss sensitive (in the sense that they will feel more pain experiencing a loss compared to the amount of joy felt from receiving an equal amount of gain).

Practical Math for Investing

Legendary investor Warren Buffett has said that, “My wealth has come from a combination of living in America, some lucky genes, and compound interest.” 1 We explain the common-sense math behind compounding as well as dollar-cost averaging, measuring portfolio risk and bond yields.

Quantifying Investment Risk

Investing in financial markets can carry significant risks and long-term adverse effects. Modern portfolio theory (MPT), which includes the concepts of asset allocation, diversification and rebalancing, assesses the maximum expected portfolio return for a given amount of portfolio risk.

Dollar-Cost Averaging or Lump Sum Investing?

Dollar-cost averaging (DCA), is making regularly scheduled investments into an investment fund over a long period of time. This seemingly simple premise, as compared to investing a lump sum, has been an extremely controversial and hotly debated topic among investors.

The Effect of Compounding

Compounding is the ability of an asset to generate earnings, which are then reinvested or remain invested with the goal of generating their own earnings. We review the details of this powerful financial tool that savvy investors can benefit from.

How Do I Use the Rule of 72 to Estimate Potential Investment Returns?

Managing Your Portfolio

How you choose and manage your investments is crucial. A well constructed, flexible portfolio balances the amount of risk you are willing to take with the return you would like to achieve—and is built to last.
You will learn about the foundations of a solid portfolio: diversification, asset allocation, rebalancing, the merits of active and passive strategies, and positioning for the long term vs. the short term. You will also understand how taxes can shape your portfolio’s composition and results.

Cryptocurrencies: The Latest Fad or The Next Frontier?

Cryptocurrencies have generated a tsunami of public excitement—and minted a new group of multimillionaires—seemingly overnight. This article explains these complex investments, discusses blockchain, and reviews the risks associated with these new investment options.

The Importance of Diversification

Diversification is an important technique that reduces risk by allocating investments among various financial instruments, industries and other categories. This is a review of the concept and its effectiveness, which aims to maximize your investment returns through varying market conditions.

Asset Allocation Essentials

Allocating investments among different asset classes is a key strategy to help manage risk and potentially increase gains. Consider it the opposite of “putting all your eggs in one basket.” The first step to understanding optimal asset allocation is defining its meaning and purpose, and then taking a closer look at how allocation can be beneficial and determine the right asset mix to achieve it.

The Benefits of Rebalancing Your Portfolio

At the end of an investment year you find that the weighting of each asset class in your investment portfolio has changed. Rebalancing is an important tool investors should use to combat this issue, reset their portfolio, and manage risk.

The Personal Financial Advisor vs. Robo Alternatives

Investors today can choose between human advisors and low-cost, automated alternatives. These newer “robo” options use technology to develop a portfolio based on a questionnaire the client completes online. While robo offerings are getting increasingly sophisticated, research shows that human advisors remain in high demand. Deciding which offering is right for you depends on a number of factors, including your stage of life and the complexity of your financial circumstances.

3 Principles for Understanding Risk

Investors often have a blind spot when it comes to risk. However, despite being an intimidating concept, the basics of risk are largely straightforward to understand. This article will explain risk and how provide practical tools to help measure it.

Investing for Income

When people think about investing, they tend to focus on assets whose value can appreciate over time; but many investors—notably retirees and people seeking additional income—want assets that will generate a steady revenue stream. We identify and describe the usual suspects of income investing, which are bonds and dividend-paying common stocks, as well as some with features that require more explanation such as preferred stocks and master limited partnerships.

Put Dividends to Work in Your Portfolio

Dividend stocks are nothing new but they remain one of the best games in town for investors. In this article, we will explain what dividends are and how you can make them work for you.

Reinvest Dividends for Long-Term Success

When a stock you own pays dividends, you have two options: pocket the cash and use it as you would any other income, or reinvest it by purchasing additional shares of stock. Although having a little extra cash on hand may be appealing, reinvesting your dividends may really pay off in the long run.

Equity Strategies

There are several traditional, time-tested strategies for choosing stocks. The most familiar are “growth” and “value,” and there are blends of growth and value stocks known as “growth at a reasonable price.” Learn what they mean, how they work and whether they make sense for your investment portfolio.

Introduction to Growth Investing

People have many different styles and tastes when it comes to money, but making your money grow is typically considered one of the most fundamental of investment objectives. The best way to accomplish this goal will vary according to factors such as the investor’s risk tolerance and time horizon. But there are some principles and techniques that are applicable for many different types of investment objectives and growth strategies.

Introduction to Value Investing

If you are a value investor, there is no perfect way to analyze a stock. Even so, many successful investors will tell you that focusing on certain fundamental metrics is the path to cashing in on potential gains. This article will help you keep an eye on the metrics that matter.

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